France Grants Asylum To Two Runaway Commissioners

The French government has granted asylum to two of the three senior superintendents of police sacked some time last year on grounds that they extorted two French journalists who were investigating homosexuality in Cameroon.

The two men now living in France are Albert Leopold Ebene and Christophe Zogo. The news of their breakthrough in obtaining their asylum papers was broken to Eden in a telephone interview with Albert Ebene, a former intelligence service officer at the Delegation of National Security in Yaounde.

Ebene denied the charges leveled against them leading to their dismissal, arguing that they could not have been given asylum papers in France if it were true that they extorted French journalists.

“Do you think that if we extorted French citizens as they claim, the French government would have granted us asylum”, he questioned. Those were all fabricated stories.

Ebene claims that he has been behind the arrest of most top government officials accused of embezzlement.
“I am the one who dismantled the network of those dealing in fake stamps in Douala”, he disclosed, “and arrested Gilles Roger Belinga, Joseph Edou and others

On the current debate on constitutional amendment, he said eventhough the police, gendarmes and the military are silent, they are strongly opposed to the move, warning against the brutality meted on people who have a contrary view on the subject.

“I know they are working on instructions but they should be vigilant because one day they will all pay for their actions,” he said.

On the Bakassi peninsular crisis which sent tongues wagging, he said there was a huge arms trafficking going on in the area with impunity, insisting that junior military officers were the victims.

“The top officials who are responsible for what happened men are of the regime”, he said. Ebene who said he was one time student leader in the University of Douala, argued that those who wanted to carry out a purported coup recently failed because they did not seek advice.

On why he was making all these revelations only now, Ebene said he had been vocal and simply increased his tone by talking to the press.

Written by Solomon Amabo in Douala